Suspending-ring.



PATENTED AUG. 29, 1905.

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S. P. VETTER. SUSPENDING RING.

APPLICATION FILED 001215. 1904.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1905.

Application filed October l5, 1904- Serial No. 228,626.

To all whom, it may concern."

Beitknown thatI. STELLA I). VETTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Patterson, in the parish of St. Mary and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Suspending-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a ring or suspending device designed for supporting mosquitonetting, curtains, portires, and other like articles or draperies from a bar, pole, or other suitable support, and aims to provide a suspending device which may be conveniently attached without sewing it to the article which is to be hung or suspended and which may be indefinitely used and cheaply manufactured.

In the drawings hereto annexed and forming part of this specification, Figure l is a front elevation showing the device attached to a mosquito-bar which is to be suspended from a support. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device as it appears in its primal form or before bending of the locking-tongue. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same. Figs. 4: and 5 are views similar to Figs. 2 and 3, showing the suspending-ring differently arranged. Fig.

6 is a view showing the manner of supporting a netting by the use of the suspending-ring shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and Fig. 7 is a similar View showing the manner of suspending the netting by the use of the suspending-ring shown in Figs. 6L and 5.

Referring; now more particularly to the drawings, the numeral l represents the suspending device, which is provided with a ring or other desired form of hanging or suspending portion 2, which may be of any preferred form or coniiguration. From one point of the periphery of this ring or suspending portion projects a tongue 3, provided at or near its inner end with aslit l and at its outer end with a reduced terminal 5, forming a locking portion adapted to be passed through said slit and bent to hold the tongue in folded condition, the slit thus acting as a keeper to retain the locking portion. The device in practice will be made of some suitable malleable metal, and the suspending device 2 and tongue 3 preferably form component parts of an integral structure. The tongue 3 may extend in the plane of the ring, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or at right angles thereto, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, according to the arrangement of the support or supports and curtain in connection with which it is to be used.

In applying the device to amosquito bar -bar or other article.

or netting, curtain, portiere, or other like article or drapery which is, to be suspended or supported the tongue 3 is lirst passed through the binding or other attaching portion of the said article and bent or folded upon the dotted line i to form a loop to retain said portion, and then the tip or reduced portion 5 is passed through the slit A and bent down upon the dotted line 7) against the opposite side of the tongue from that on which the loop is formed, the tip or locking portion 5 thus being rctained from disengagement, so that the loop formed by the folded portion of the tongue will iirmly engage and support the mosquito- In thus applying the device it will be observed that the tip portion 5 of the tongue performs a double function, in that its reduced form adapts it to serve as a point which facilitates the passage of the tongue through the fabric as well as a locking member to hold the tongue in engagement therewith.

Fig. 6 shows a netting 6 supported by a series of suspending devices embodying my invention and in which the tongues of the suspending devices are arranged in the plane of the suspending-ring 2, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, from which it will be observed that the rings 2 are hung upon or engaged with a series of supporting-hooks, rods, or hangers 7, arranged at right angles to the netting. /Vhen it is desired to hang the netting from a single rod or support, the locking-tongues are arranged at right angles to the suspendingrings 2, thus positioning the rings at right angles to the direction of its tension of the netting and permitting the same to be slipped upon and hung from a single bar or support 7', as shown in Fig. 7.y l

A suspending device constructed in accordance with my invention may be cheaply manufactured and quickly attached to and removed l from the article to be suspended, and it may IOO IIO

to be bent intermediate its ends to provide a su pportng fold or loop and a looking portion to be passed through said slit and bent at its point of junction with the body portion of the tongue upon the opposite side of the tongue from the loop to retain the tongue in folded Condition.

In testimony whereof l ai-HX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

STELLA P. VETTER.

Witnesses:

J. E. MUNSON, J r., C. P. DAIGLE. 

